Category Archives for "Grow"

The herbs and medicinals in the herb spiral have grown. In fact, a couple have gotten a BIT big for their britches as you can see. Specifically, the calendulas, which have gone HOG WILD and the sorrel. Here is the first picture of the herb spiral for comparison. See those little interplanted unlabeled sad looking […]

Woo-hoo! The backyard is fully fenced! Frugal Man built a gorgeous wooden fence to enclose the fourth side of the backyard and the wee chickens are as safe as we can make them to wander around during the day. I also feel more secure about being alone when Frugal Man is away on business and […]

A couple of very elegant ladies have joined our coop. Two Barnevelders. If you haven’t heard of Barnevelders, they are a Dutch heritage dual purpose breed known for gorgeous double-laced feathers and for laying well through the winter. They are also usually quite friendly. We got two pullets, one four months-old, one three months-old. The […]

This is our new Barred Rock chicken, freshly caught from the back of a cafe on State Highway 1 where it was living feral. As Frugal Man will gleefully tell you we actually caught two, but I managed to let one escape when trying to give them some water. I’ll never live THAT one down […]

Our garden has given us a special sunflower, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Heart-shaped, as you see. Obviously, we had to share it with you. Awwww. We talked about what sort of text we should include that would sum up our particular kind of cuddly-wuddly, snooggy-woog-ums love (wuv) here at the Frugal Kiwi and […]